You Were Watching from the Sand

von Juliana Lamy

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In “belly,” a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.

• ISBN: 9781636281056
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2023
• Größe: 201 x 124 mm
• Verlag: Red Hen Press